Me: I should write something
me : … or I could spent 78 hours straight making a miniature library with a working LED chandelier
The lights are working now!
everyone look at my friend's tiny library she's so talented
can someone please be proud of me like fuck I’m trying
reblog to let prev know you’re proud of them
this is Scarlet, she is my aunt's bird and someday my bird. she is probably around 30 years old or older, she's family to us, this Tuesday she got out of her cage and flew away. we are devastated.
my aunt lives in Caldwell Idaho in canyon county. can people spread this around, maybe this can be seen by the right person, she's very very important to us the date right now is june, 10th 2023 please message me if you seen her or know anyone who has. she only mimics or talks and dose'nt make bird sounds, she often mimics coughing and asks for me "sarah"
she's sweet but may bite, and she's drawn to people with deep voices, she's very clever as well, thank you if you help
Dodgers uninvited drag queens to their pride night, so the mayor of Anaheim invited them to the Angels pride night lmfaoooo
...Heh heh. :)
Source: abc7.com
Reminders for the Anxious/Depressed Creatives
- You’re more than what you make.
- Your productivity does not determine your value.
- It’s okay to do nothing sometimes.
- Not everything you do has to result in a product.
- Not everything you make has to be important, significant, or even good.
- You can make things just for yourself.
- You can keep secrets for yourself, whether it’s not posting some of your projects or not sharing your techniques.
- You’re allowed to say no.
- You’re allowed to rest.
2023 Updates:
- Inspiration doesn’t cure burnout. Rest cures burnout.
- People will wait for you; take your time and come back when you are ready.
- It’s okay to scrap projects that no longer excite you, even if other people like them.
- It’s delightful and excellent to be openly proud of your work.
- Afford yourself the same gentleness that you would afford another creative - negative self-talk is counterproductive and frankly cruel.
- Self-indulgent creations are satisfying to others as well; don’t apologize for your own pleasure.
- Actually, don’t apologize for your work at all.
...So it's live, for those who'd like to grab it!
(...Consider this a soft launch, as the art's not done. It takes significant time to pack all the people involved into a representative scene.) :)
Warning! Contains: homosexuals, bisexuals, lesbians, pansexuals, asexuals, polyamorous folks, genderfluid humans and nonhumans, two (or maybe three) varieties of magic-users, science-users, wizards and Dragons. And occasional (how did they sneak in there? Never mind: the Goddess / the One made room for them too...) cissexual people....
...and has contained them, since 1979.
Welcome to one universe where who you love and how your genders intersect is between you, your lover(s), and the Goddess. And another where wizards come in so many species that getting sniffy about something as wildly variable as sex and gender is (eyeroll) soooo provincial... when you're just one more of a million kinds of humanity, and the serious question is:
Never mind the tentacles... do you think can we date?
The collection contains:
- The Door Into Fire
- The Door Into Shadow
- The Door Into Sunset
- Tales of the Five #1: The Levin-Gad
- Tales of the Five #2: The Landlady
- Sirronde's World #1: The Span
- Sirronde's World #3: Parting Gifts
- Tales of the Middle Kingdoms #1: Lior and the Sea
- Tales of the Middle Kingdoms #2: Overdue
and. from the Young Wizards universe:
All the works above are available for individual purchase at Ebooks Direct at the (currently normal) 50%-off discount. This package, though, takes an additional 15% off that price. The Pride Month Package will be available at its reduced price, $18.99, until Pride Month's end (30 June 2023, 23:59 UTC).
Everyone reblog with your most unemployable traits
the tale of the Brain Glitchies
OK SO the day after i started taking cannabis for my SPD, i started getting this really unsettling sensation: from time to time, the world was doing a vertical-hold-flicker like an old CRT screen, accompanied by little static bursts in my head that weren’t sound and weren’t in my ears but were more like sound than anything else i had words for.
it got worse over the next couple days, so i discontinued the cannabis, but that had no effect. i did a lot of googling. micro seizures, blood pressure problems, a dozen kinds of tintinitus, none of it quite fit. it seemed obvious that it was a side effect of cannabis, but i couldn’t find any documentation of anything like that. after a week of it, though, i remembered that i actually did experience it the day before i got the cannabis, but at the time i put it down to the effects of a too-hot shower, as it had faded once i cooled down. was this heatstroke? i turned my AC down but it didn’t help.
at the same time, there was some dire emotional shit going down in my life, and it was really fucking with my mood. i just felt hopeless and just… sorry for existing. i didn’t want to die, but i didn’t want to deal with being alive. i had thoughts like, “i should just stop trying to fix all my medical shit, it’s obviously never going to work, i’m just destined to be a gross little ball of pain and die.” this is… Not Like Me.
seebs, understandably worried, called the doctor. they suggested something called cannelith repositioning, because sometimes crystals will form in your inner ear and throw everything out of whack, but you can usually roll them loose by doing this series of awkward head-tilty poses.
(gui: crystals? really? me: not crystals like new age, crystals like kidney stones. gui: oh, you have Ear Gout!)
guess how well this worked. yeah, it wasn’t Ear Gout either.
barb sat me down and made me talk about the symptoms all over again. frustrated, i had a little vent session about how none of the things we’d researched were a very good fit for the symptoms in the first place, but there were just no words for how it really was! how can you describe that hsht-hsht-flicker sensation when it’s not sound, it’s not sight – i said, “i’m max headroom!” and she didn’t know who max headroom is. she’s too young.
but somehow, that barrage of nonsense led her to find this page:
They’re often described as feeling like brief electric jolts to the head that sometimes radiate to other body parts. Others describe it as feeling like the brain is briefly shivering. Brain shakes can happen repeatedly throughout the day and even wake you up from sleep.
THERE IT IS. and you know what causes it? MEDICATION WITHDRAWAL.
so she checked my pill boxes, and discovered… the lexapro… was not in there. and since she fills two weeks at a time, it had not been there for a week and a half.
i took a lexapro immediately and within an hour the symptoms started to fade. when i woke up this morning i felt totally normal. and of course the depression and anxiety were no longer kicking me in the dick, because even though the dire shit in my life was not gone, the serotonin deficiency was being handled again so i had the resources to like. use my brain for something besides an angst sponge.
TEAL DEAR:
if you get mysterious BRAIN ZOTS and VERTIGO BUT IT ISN’T VERTIGO and you feel like you’re going like this
then CHECK YOUR MEDS because chances are you accidentally dropped an SSRI or something, and if you resume taking it on schedule, YOU WILL BE OK.
bringing this back because with all the supply-side fuckery a lot of folks are dealing with medication shortages.
I think this is an incredibly important video to watch
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mathermatical notation explained
symbol meaning
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√ right answer
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∮ what Exacrly the fuck
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NEIL GAIMAN NEW COLLEGE ALT-GRAD SPEECH 2023
Neil Gaiman, Author and Professor of the Arts at Bard, addresses New College of Florida Students, who organized their own Alt-Graduation Ceremony in defiance of the hostile takeover of their college and attack on their Academic Freedoms. www.SaveNewCollege.org
It’s less than 5 minutes. If you can, please watch it.
A beautiful speech Mr. Gaiman. I do not know what is happening at New College and I feel the need to ask what is going on. Sorry if this is worded awkwardly, I am nervous and just socialy awkward in general.
@fluffylandshark Hi, I'm a New College alum. I have been following this closely, so I can give you a run-down. (Also don't worry, you sounded fine!)
Background: New College of Florida is a small liberal arts college in Sarasota. It has around 800 students, and probably less next year. It does not have grades, it instead has narrative evaluations. There are no required classes beyond what is legally required for Common Core. As an Honors College, everyone is required to do an undergraduate thesis and defend it in front of a Baccalaureate Committee. I studied Environmental Science and I was able to create my own major (known as an Area of Concentration). I even designed an Independent Study Project that went in-depth on cholera.
As for what is happening now, the simple answer is that Governor DeSantis appointed a bunch of conservatives to the Board of Trustees (or BoT). One of these is Chris Rufo, the guy behind the CRT scare. They have been trying to systematically tear down the college. This has included things like firing the president and trying to change the school's curriculum and entrance requirements, with a conservative evangelical Christian angle.
For a more in-depth answer, here is a list of things they have done or are currently planning on doing, which I'm putting under a read-more because it's quite long:
NE State Sen. Lou Ann Linehan (R) complains filibusters of anti-trans bills made her miss her grandson's preschool graduation.
Sen. Megan Hunt (I): “You won't come off this bill that hurts my [trans] son. You hate him more than you love your own family. That's why you're here."
btw that (I) by her name is bc she ditched the dems for not supporting her in this
Erm this is a Galaxy-class starship, she fought the Borg and won when 39 other ships were obliterated. I think the fabric walls will be okay.
* trips on ramp and spills Earl Grey up the wall*
reblog if the first musical you listened to was not Hamilton
WTF 😳 😂😂 @so-hip-it-hurtz need to take the kids here ..😉😂😂
The grandchildren will eventually need therapy, too! 😂😂😂
What the…???? 😂😂😂
Does anyone else ever get kudos on *one* story in a series, on AO3? Do you also find that odd? Like, here's six or eight short pieces, all with the same pairing and mood and so forth, but you only liked *one* of them enough to leave kudos?
*pauses to consider the possibility that I may have done this myself, as a reader*
Also it puzzles me when people read seasonal fic out of season. My only kudos today was on a Hozier RPF fic that takes place on (American) Thanksgiving Day.
As a "thin" person, I'm trying to better understand this and have a few questions, so if you're wiling to reply that would be great. Does the fat acceptance movement include 230kg/500+ pound people? I understand that weight looks different on different people, so a 6ft7 person who is 230 kg will look very different to a 4ft7 person who is 230kg, are both of these types accepted in the fat acceptance movement? Also, what about people who physically cannot hold their own weight on their own legs?
Why would any of that matter? Do you think there’s a limit after which it becomes ok to treat people like shit? To take away from them basic human dignities?
-MG
These kind of questions really make me angry.
I have had people in my real life ask me similar things. Like this is some kind of “gotcha” where my resolve will suddenly crumble when it comes to very large people who cannot walk. As if I might then conclude “oh, well, at that point dieting and weight loss and bullying and abuse ARE the best path to health.”
No. No no no no. No.
I would love to live in a world where people who weigh 500 lbs have access to clothing that fits, furniture that accommodates them, medical care that actually understands their bodies and their needs. I want to live in a world where people who weigh 500 lbs can freely access whatever mobility aids and physical accommodations they need, without shame, guilt or abuse.
I want to live in a world where people who weigh 500 lbs can leave the house and feel safe and comfortable.
Now all of THAT would improve super fat peoples health. Not this objectifying, dehumanizing, faux concern exhibited by people like the OP.
People who weigh 500 lbs are not your fucking gotcha. Super fat people struggle day in and day out to exist and thrive in this hate-filled world. Show them some damn respect.
i’m going to, for the duration of my reply, assume avalxche was asking these questions in good faith, even those these particular questions have, historically, not been asked in good faith.
the fat acceptance movement, fat liberation, and body positivity in general (though that last one has been co-opted by people of all sizes now) all rely on every fat person being accepted. at no point will a “but what about—” question ever be replied to with a “oh, you’re right, they aren’t part of this, they can be dehumanized just fine!” keep that in mind going forward. i do understand that some people within the fat acceptance movements might accept bodies on a conditional basis, but they are doing fat acceptance wrong.
these types of questions are also why the fat acceptance movement and anti-ableism are so intrinsically linked. because these clarifying questions have boiled down to “do we still accept fat people if they’re disabled?” the obvious — to us, at least — answer is of course. why on earth wouldn’t we? but the society we live in, world-wide, is incredibly fatphobic and ableist, and so that isn’t as universally obvious as it should be.
the short answer remains, every single fat person in the world should have their bodies accepted, cared for, and accommodated for. they should face absolutely no guilt, or shame, and they should not be made fun of for their bodies in any capacity. yes, even those people. and those ones too. this includes any fat person you can imagine, even the ones you think are ‘bad.’
hope that clears things up.